3D for compound optical microscopes

[P3D David C. Glick <xid@xxxxxxx>]

P3D Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>Subject: Re: SEM Anaglyphs
...
>In this months Quality in Manufacturing magazine there is an
>article about new microscope technology. What caught my eye
>was a paragraph about 3D for compound scopes. Here is an excerpt
>from the article, titled, "All the world's a stage".
>
>  3D for compound scopes 
...
>You can also read the full article on their web page at,
>  http://www.aip.com/mfg/pub/qm/html/897sta.html

Interesting, but neither that bit nor the web page say how it's done, and I
didn't see anything on Zeiss's web page <http://www.zeiss.com>.  However,
Edge Scientific has something which is described the same way (American
Laboratory, July 1997, p. 42), and they do give a good description on their
web page <http://www.edgesci.com> under "theory."  There are two methods;
one uses multiple oblique illumination and polarization to deliver different
images to the two eyes, the other splits the light paths from the 2 sides of
the objective lens and delivers them to the 2 eyes. 

The web site also has a gallery of 3D photos (for cross viewing) made by
these methods.

David Glick


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